Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 22 > Chapter 5 - Department of Local Government Finance and Indiana Board of Tax Review Hearings

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• credit corporation: means a corporation to which the secretary of state has issued a certificate of election under section 8 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-1
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• lending agreement: means an agreement between a credit corporation and a lending institution, under which the lending institution agrees to lend funds to the credit corporation in accordance with section 13 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-2
• lending institution: means a bank or trust company, industrial loan and investment company, credit union, savings bank, bank of discount and deposit, small loan company, savings association, insurance company or related corporation, partnership, limited liability company, foundation, pension fund, or other institution engaged primarily in lending or investing funds. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-3
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• loan limit: means , for any member, the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding at any one (1) time on loans made by that member to a credit corporation, as determined by the credit corporation's board of directors. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-4
• member: means a lending institution authorized to do business in Indiana that enters into a lending agreement with, and undertakes to make member loans to, a credit corporation organized or operated under this chapter. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• small business concern: means any business entity that qualifies as a small business concern under the applicable section of the federal Aid to Small Business Act (15 U. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-7
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5